Brazilian Democrats

The Democrats (DEM) are a liberal-conservative party in Brazil that was founded in January 1985 as the Liberal Front Party (PFL). The party split from the successor groups of the national conservative ARENA party, the official party of the military dictatorship of 1964-1985. The party, regarded as centrist and social liberal, supported market liberal policies, but it identified with Christian democratic and conservative parties worldwide. It would participate in several right-wing coalitions.